Title :
inGuide — Interactive Guide
Author :
Gomes Batista, Filipe Andre ; Rodrigues, Nelson ; Goncalves, Afonso
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Technol. & Manage., Polytech. Inst. of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
Abstract :
This paper describes the inGuide - Interactive Guide application, a context-aware tourist guide that is presently available to Android smartphones. This application takes advantage of technologies such as Augmented Reality and geolocation in order to provide contextual information in a simple and interactive way. inGuide is a modular application which provides a package management system avoiding the need for a different version of the application for each city. Simultaneously it also surpasses one of the major hurdles related with mobile tourist applications, which is assuming always-on data connection and high speed network access.
Keywords :
augmented reality; mobile computing; smart phones; travel industry; Android smartphones; always-on data connection; augmented reality; context-aware tourist guide; contextual information; geolocation; high speed network access; inGuide; interactive guide application; mobile tourist applications; package management system; Androids; Augmented reality; Cities and towns; Geology; Mobile communication; Servers; Smart phones; Augmented Reality; Geolocation; Interactive Guide; Tourism;
Conference_Titel :
Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2013 8th Iberian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisboa
